Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we are excited to speak with Jesse Mecham -- a personal finance expert and founder of You Need A Budget -- about ways to decrease spending and borrowing during bar prep and generally in life.

Keys to Bar Exam Success with Themis (w/Rebecca Petrilli)

9 days ago 45m 21s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're excited to be speaking with our guest Rebecca Petrilli from Themis Bar Review. We'll share our top 10 tips for using your bar review program to its full capacity to achieve better writin

Listen and Learn -- Consideration (Contract Law)

16 days ago 19m 58s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing an important concept from Contract Law - consideration - which is one of the three requirements of contract formation. In t

Quick Tips -- Budgeting for the Bar Exam

23 days ago 16m 59s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're discussing just how much it can cost you to sit for the bar exam, as well as some mitigation strategies to try to reduce the cost and help cover any shortfalls. In this ep

Quick Tips -- Best Bar Exam Study Habits for Takers w/ ADHD

30 days ago 14m 44s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, as part of our "Quick Tips" series, we're talking about best habits for studying for the bar exam if you're coping with ADHD or ADD. In this episode, we discuss: Creating a detailed study s

Quick Tips -- Best Habits for Studying for the Bar Exam While Working

Mar 18th, 2024 9m 11s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, as part of our "Quick Tips" series, we're talking about best habits for studying for the bar exam while working full-time or part-time. In this episode, we discuss: Creating a bar exam stud

Bar Exam Best Practices - Creating Good Habits

Mar 11th, 2024 35m 43s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're talking about creating great bar exam study habits and ones that would be useful in your life in general. In this episode, we discuss: Learning through doing the things th

Listen and Learn -- Property-Based Intentional Torts

Mar 4th, 2024 21m 36s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing property intentional torts and their specific defenses. In this episode, we discuss: A brief review of intentional torts W

Listen and Learn -- Present and Future Estates (Part 2)

Feb 26th, 2024 18m 46s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're diving into the second part of our discussion on present estates and future interests. In the previous episode we reviewed the default property interest, the fee simple absolute, and d

Listen and Learn -- Present and Future Estates (Part 1)

Feb 19th, 2024 22m 11s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we're diving into a topic from Property Law -- Present and Future Estates. In this first part of a two-part series, we discuss the default property interest, the fee simple absolute

Quick Tips -- How to Prepare for the NextGen Bar Exam While Still in Law School

Feb 12th, 2024 12m 32s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're continuing our discussion of the NextGen Bar Exam with a few tips on what classes and skills to focus on in law school for a more seamless bar prep experience down the line. In this epi

Considerations for the NextGen Bar Exam (Plus Questions We Still Have!)

Feb 5th, 2024 32m 53s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're talking about the format and scope of the NextGen Bar Exam, which will eventually replace the UBE. The first administration of the new bar exam format is scheduled for July 2026. In this

Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Factual Causation

Jan 29th, 2024 19m 16s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we're focusing on one of the most highly-tested topics on the bar exam: Negligence. In particular, we're talking about the different ways in which factual causation can be proved

Listen and Learn -- Amendments to Pleadings (Civ Pro)

Jan 22nd, 2024 19m 51s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in our "Listen and Learn" series, we're discussing the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure – more specifically Rule 15, which deals with the instances in which a party can amend their pleading.

Quick Tips -- Memorization Techniques for the Different Learning Styles

Jan 15th, 2024 14m 40s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking about memorization for the bar exam. In particular, we discuss several memorization techniques and provide examples to illustrate each one. We also talk about adapting these tec

Spaced Repetition and Memorization During Bar Prep (w/Gabe Teninbaum)

Jan 8th, 2024 29m 22s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're excited to have guest Gabe Teninbaum back on the podcast. He is a law professor and creator of spacedrepetition.com and we're talking with him about memorization for the bar exam. Note:

Listen and Learn -- Professional Responsibility: Prosecutors' Duties

Dec 18th, 2023 11m 6s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in our "Listen and Learn" series, we review the professional rules regarding the duties owed by prosecutors when bringing criminal charges. We also look at how these issues might show up on t

242: Quick Tips -- How to Avoid Running Out of Time on the Performance Test (PT)

Dec 11th, 2023 13m 2s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, as part of our "Quick Tips" series, we're talking about how to avoid running out of time on the performance test, and what to do in case that happens. In this episode, we discuss: Planning f

Overcoming Common Performance Test Problems

Dec 4th, 2023 31m 33s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today we're talking about common struggles with the bar exam performance test and strategies for overcoming them. In this episode, we discuss: What is the purpose of the performance test? Some of t

Quick Tips -- Tackling the Bar Exam with ADHD

Nov 27th, 2023 12m 16s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! If you've recently received an ADHD diagnosis as an adult, you might be feeling daunted by the prospect of conquering the intense bar exam prep process. Join us for this episode as we build a game p

Quick Tips -- How Journaling Can Help You Stay on Task During Bar Prep

Nov 13th, 2023 11m 13s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In today's episode, we explore how journaling can be used to help you stay on task, manage your stress, and give you a significant edge in your bar exam prep. In this episode, we discuss: The uniqu

Managing Self-Sabotaging Behavior with a Solid Study Schedule

Nov 6th, 2023 33m 8s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode, we're talking about setting up a solid study schedule to protect yourself from self-sabotage during bar prep. In this episode, we discuss: The dangers of overstudying and understud

Listen and Learn -- Discovery (Civ Pro)

Oct 30th, 2023 21m 48s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, we're focusing on an important Civil Procedure topic: Discovery. We look at the process during which the parties exchange information with each other through required initial disclosures, the

Quick Tips -- Framing Failure as Feedback

Oct 23rd, 2023 11m

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! Today, in an episode from our "Quick Tips" series, we're looking at ways to get in the right mindset for studying again if you've failed the bar exam, and how to use your score report as a starting

Quick Tips -- How to Balance Parenting with Bar Exam Study

Oct 16th, 2023 16m 25s

Welcome back to the Bar Exam Toolbox podcast! In this episode from our "Quick Tips" series, we're talking about how to balance parenting, or really any life commitments, with studying for the bar exam. In this episode, we discuss: Communicatin